The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
When you're going to play with dead things, do it during the daylight.
Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.
No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is not on the Earth, that is dead
Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something that is inanimate. You see what a sort of audacious thing it is to move these sort of imaginary people around in a very stylized and patterned world.
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.
There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.
I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
